Woke to snow this morning. Remember, this is May and traditionally, we’re done with that shit by now. Oh well, in the midst of a drought, beggars can’t be choosers.

Tori found a picture of my old bike yesterday. I thought I’d scan it and post it here for posterity.

As you can see, it’s quite a bit smaller than my current ride.

Winter weather advisory? IN MAY? Whose idea of a sick joke is this? After this weekend’s winds, I’m sick of weather. I want summer, NOW! Make it happen.

Makes ya proud to live in these times, don’t it?

Despite the high winds, I took a short ride on my bike this afternoon. It was followed by a transfer of the bike from the storage units to my garage. THIS was a welcome change for me. It makes my future rides easier and more convenient.

I drove down the frontage road to Bernal and came back on the interstate. 20 miles from start to finish. Definitely not enough of a ride.

Cleaning the garage will be a multi day affair.

Well I have the first ATV loaded on my trailer, ready to go to SF for repairs. I’ll load and bring the other one the next day. They haven’t run in over a year because of the dry conditions and the resulting restrictions.

We hope to take them to Ouray or Moab this summer for some serious off-roading. I recently found a website that lists the most dangerous roads in the world by country. In the USA it’s amazing the number of the listed roads that Nina and I have traversed.  I’m also amazed at the high number of those roads that are in Colorado. The website is dangerousroads.org if you wish to peruse it.

The IRS suspected a fishing boat owner wasn’t paying proper wages to his deckhand and sent an agent to  investigate him.

 IRS AUDITOR: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them”.

 Boat Owner: “Well, there’s  Clarence, my deckhand, he’s been with me for 3 years. I pay him $1,000 a week plus free room and board.  Then there’s the mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of Bacardi rum and a dozen Budweiser’s every Saturday night so he can cope with life. He also gets to sleep with my wife occasionally”.

 IRS AUDITOR: “That’s the guy I want to talk to – the mentally challenged one”.

 Boat Owner: “That would be me. What would you want to know”?

Strange thing that The Glen Blog has very little actual Glen news. Well, today I’ll actually post some shit about me.  Since I write about what happens with the family when I’m around to see it, I seldom think about my stuff.

• I am now a member of the state tourism board as the representative from San Miguel County and the City of Las Vegas. I will be part of the Northeast NM group of counties.
• This is a serious group and I will be dealing with a much larger advertising budget than I’ve ever dreamed of playing with and it is an ever growing pool of money. Last year’s budget was $300K and next year’s budget will be $700K. That’s a butt-load of budget for some of the most unpopulated counties in the state.
• I’m really loving my new toy. I can see me putting on some very big milage numbers on this bike during the summer months. (Just so there’s no mistake, when I say bike I mean motorcycle, not a bicycle. Motorcycles belong on the road, bicycles belong on the sidewalks.)
• So far I’ve done over 1500 miles and I think that’s not bad in the month and a half I’ve had it. I’ve embraced the Harley-Davidson lifestyle. I’m a member of H.O.G. or the Harley Owner’s Group as the initials represent. I’ve done one ride so far and Nina and I are going to another ride next weekend to Amarillo Texas.
• We’re going to be tourists in Texas for 2 days. There’ll be a great ride getting there and a nice ride home. Dinner will be at the Big Texan, a monstrously huge steak joint that is a pretty famous tourist trap on I-40. The ride is 260 miles each way.
• I hope the weatherliar predicts storms. That will ensure great weather and no winds.

Back to your regularly scheduled bullshit.